The girlfriend of a Macomb County judge accused of drunken driving with the judge’s two juvenile children in her vehicle will fight the charge, her attorney said Monday after a court hearing.

Brenda Conway, 50, of Troy, appeared in 46th District Court in Southfield for a pretrial on the allegation she drove drunk while circuit court Judge Richard Caretti and his two children were passengers in her SUV last month. Conway was arrested at the Franklin home of Caretti’s ex-wife, Lori Conway, who called police after receiving text messages from one of her daughters.

Brenda Conway’s attorney, Jeffrey Lance Abood, said after the hearing that he will challenge Franklin police’s probable cause to evaluate Brenda Conway (not a blood relation of Lori Conway) because police’s only reports came from biased witnesses.

“This is all fueled by an ex-wife with an ax to grind,” Abood said. “They (police) didn’t observe my client driving drunk. There’s no objective witness statement whatsoever. All they relied on was the testimony of the ex-wife. While my client was on the road, there was no objective witness reporting that she was driving bad or was drunk. All the witnesses in the case seem to be biased.”

He said he expects to file legal motions in the case. Judge Debra Nance set a Feb. 14 deadline for motions and a March 4 pretrial.

Nance also made a reference to an adjournment of the Jan. 28 pretrial date due to Conway taking a trip to Mexico with Caretti.

“No more vacations,” she said from the bench.

Caretti was under investigation by state Child Protective Services for allowing his two minor children to ride with a suspected drunken driver.

Caretti and his ex-wife divorced in 2011 and have joint custody.

The charge stems from an incident that began late Jan. 12 as Caretti, Conway and his two daughters aged 15 and 12 drove from a Caretti family wedding in Macomb Township. The 15-year-old texted her mother that she was scared due to Conway’s “dangerous” drunk driving. Police were waiting for the vehicle at Lori Conway’s home near 14 Mile Road west of Telegraph Road and arrested her. Brenda Conway registered .18 percent blood-alcohol in a preliminary breathalyzer test at the scene and slightly lower percentages at a police station.

The 15-year-old girl, who had a drivers training permit, also said her father asked her to drive because he and Brenda Conway were too drunk.

The girls’ and Lori Conway’s statements and text messages contradict Caretti’s claim that he did not know Conway was drunk, and was not drunk himself.

Caretti has served as a judge in Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens since 2002, including two years as chief.